URL Canonicalization

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To ensure comparability of URLs, all output files MUST use a canonical form for URLs:

    CanonicalURL := Protocol "://" Authority Path
      [ "?" Query ] [ ":" Port ]
where square brackets ([]) denote optional components that are only produced if they are present in the URL or differ from the default. The CanonicalURL string MUST NOT contain extraneous whitespace - the whitespace in the above definition is present only for readability. Note that all of the components listed here are available via methods of the java.net.URL class.



Terran Lane 2005-09-21